Influence of Body Mass Index and Antibiotic Dose on the Risk of Surgical Site Infections in Pediatric Clean Orthopedic Surgery

BMI as a Predictor of Spinal Cord Stimulation Success in Chronic Pain Patients

“…In addition, other modifiable variables affecting SCS outcomes should continue to be explored. We have previously suggested that smoking status and psychological health have a significant impact on SCS success . Although we observe no difference between BMI cohorts' baseline BDI scores, perhaps other pre‐operative psychological tests like the HAD, presence of a postoperative support system, or the presence or history of a psychiatric disorder may partially explain the variance we observe with BMI and BDI and PCS outcome measure improvement.…”

Evaluating the use of antibiotic prophylaxis during open reduction and internal fixation surgery in patients at low risk of surgical site infection

“…We considered an ORIF patient to have a high risk of developing SSI if he or she had severe systemic disease affecting his or her general health and immunity, extensive skin or tissue injuries with dirty and contaminated wounds at the incision sites, multiple implants, or long duration of surgeries. Other risk factors, such as the patient's age (>65 years) and body mass index (>40 kg/ m 2 ), may also affect the SSI rate [1,10,18,25,29]. However, to make the scorecard simple and practical, we did not include all possible risk factors.…”

Association Between Body Mass Index and Urinary Tract Infection in Adult Patients

“…Relationship between BMI and other infections ended with controversial results. Some studies showed positive association between higher BMI with surgical site infections ( 24 ), nosocomial infections ( 25 , 26 ), pneumonia ( 27 ), cellulitis ( 28 , 29 ) and periodontal infections ( 30 ).…”